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This report sets a new standard for comprehensive, reality-based assessment of the crowdfunding industry, based on data gathered from 308 funding platforms worldwide and analysis from massolution’s industry-leading brain trust.

On Monday, our sister firm massolution released 2013CF: The Crowdfunding Industry Report, which found an 81 percent increase between 2011 and 2012 in the amount raised globally through crowdfunding and predicts an even larger increase for 2013. By noon, international media outlets were spreading the word far and wide.

For several weeks now we’ve been highlighting preparations for Crowdsourcing Week, one of the first global events of its kind coming up in Singapore in June. Today we look at CSW’s Global One-Day Summits taking place this month in Amsterdam, Berlin and Warsaw.

The sharing economy is quickly gaining steam, and a recent report shows that over half of Americans have rented out traditionally-owned items in exchange for cash in the past two years. We take a look at the report and share an infographic based on the findings.

NineSigma released a “scorecard” report recently, documenting the trends and challenges within the open innovation industry. We discuss the report and share an infographic NineSigma created based on its findings.

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We feature the first half of our interview with Lou Doctor, president of the new crowdfunding platform Crowd Supply. The platform combines product fulfillment services with, hoping to become a one stop shop for entrepreneurs.